{"id":69,"date":"2015-05-14T05:10:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T05:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/?p=69"},"modified":"2016-03-18T03:29:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T03:29:14","slug":"testing-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"From The Vaults: Lachy Doley"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the things I absolutely love about working at WOAS-FM is finding golden nuggets. \u00a0No, I have that backwards: \u00a0I absolutely love when a golden nugget finds us. \u00a0We get promotional CDs and information from bands and artists all the time. \u00a0We make it a point to play the music they send us and we do enjoy all of it. \u00a0\u00a0When something catches our ear, we investigate those artists a bit further. \u00a0\u00a0We find that some CDs give us what we assume is the same feeling that a prospector gets when they find a gold nugget (or as I self-corrected above, the feeling they would get if the gold nugget found them!). \u00a0\u00a0The latest golden nugget to knock on our door came by e-mail stating simply \u2018Hi Ken – I\u2019m Lachy Doley from Sydney, Australia. Just getting in contact because my new album CONVICTION is coming out on MAY 30 and I wanted to send you the title track. Really hope you enjoy it and maybe give it a spin or 2 on your show\u2019.<\/p>\n

Lachlan (Lachy) Doley\u2019s e-mail contained the magical phrase \u2018Hammond B-3 player\u2019 so I was instantly interested in what he had to say. \u00a0His bio states he has played with many artists I am familiar with and Lachy mentioned in subsequent e-mails that he is also a fan of Ron Levy (and the Wild Kingdom – a permanent fixture on the WOAS program list) and the Vanilla Fudge (and their superlative keyboard player Mark Stein). \u00a0The bio also mentions that Glenn Hughes (Trapeze, Deep Purple, Black Country Communion) has recruited him to play on a Jon Lord tribute CD (Deep Purple\u2019s late but innovative Hammond B-3 player) and that he will also be appearing on Joe Bonamassa\u2019s next studio album. \u00a0Clearly, Lachy (sounds like \u2018Lock-e\u2019) (and I am glad I asked because I kept gravitating to \u2018Lucky\u2019 or \u2018Latchy\u2019 and neither sounds as cool as \u2018Lock-e) has music industry cred galore but like many good things that take a little longer to reach us at the north end of US 45, he has been flying under our radar. \u00a0At least until he made contact with us in May of 2015. \u00a0This qualifies Lachy Doley as a prime example of a golden nugget finding us and as long-time lovers of the Hammond organ sound, we are glad that he did.<\/p>\n

Naturally, I started looking for as much \u2018Lachy Doley Band\u2019 information as I could find online and the clips from his recent \u2018Live at 303\u2019 DVD are outstanding \u00a0\u00a0In particular his band rocks on \u00a0their \u00a0version of Steve Winwood\u2019s (and Spencer Davis Group\u2019s) \u00a0Gimme Some Lovin\u2019 <\/span><\/i>(www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XlOBZE_i0NA<\/a>)<\/span>. \u00a0\u00a0A sneak peak download of the title track of his new CD Conviction<\/i> indicates that covers aside, he is also a gifted songwriter, player, and singer. \u00a0I am counting the days until we can get a copy of the full CD to share with our listeners.<\/p>\n

Most of the clips I have seen include a bassist and drummer (Lachy says they are \u2018Jan Bangma on Bass and Byron Goodwin on drums. Awesome guys and great players!\u2019). \u00a0They are a solid rhythm section and on the \u2018Live at 303\u2019 DVD, they are joined by a second keyboard player named \u00a0Sam Cope who also knows his way around the white and blacks. \u00a0In the world of facially contorted, sometimes pouty, guitar players, it is refreshing to see the huge smile plastered all over Lachy\u2019s face as they tear through their set. \u00a0I know Steve Martin came up with the comic bit about \u2018nobody can frown while playing a banjo\u2019 (and I subsequently hijacked the saying in reference to playing the drums), but Doley makes a good case for adding \u2018Hammond organ\u2019 to the \u2018no frowning\u2019 list. \u00a0He gets really animated when playing his \u2018whammy clav\u2019. \u00a0Picture a guitar whammy bar nearly three feet long attached at a 45 degree angle to the top of a clavinet. \u00a0\u00a0Now amplify the movements a guitarist makes using said whammy bar by a factor of 25 and you may get an pretty good mental picture of what a \u2018whammy clav\u2019 brings to Lachy\u2019s playing.<\/p>\n

During my internet research, \u00a0I was zoning out listening to some tracks when I clicked on one absent mindedly and got what sounded like Lachy Doley, only this time he was fronting a full soul review replete with female singers. \u00a0A double take later and I discovered I had stumbled upon Lachy\u2019s brother Clayton Doley who also tears it up on the keys. \u00a0When I tried to stir a little sibling rivalry by inquiring \u2018who is better\u2019, Lachy came back with \u201cThanks for the message mate. \u00a0I’m better of course hahahahahahaha – I reckon we are both pretty different in style even though we both play the organ and keys.\u201d \u00a0I also dug up some clips from another one of my favorite Hammond players, Dutch phenom Carlo de Wjis (D\u2019Wys and the Voices of Soul) to share with our new buddy down under. \u00a0While D\u2019Wys has a slightly jazzier style than Doley, he relies on a pack of vocalists (The Voices of Soul), bass and sometimes guitar in his live performances. \u00a0Doley adds his own soulful voice to his band and that pulls his arrangements more to the \u2018rock and soul\u2019 side of the ledger. \u00a0The Lachy Doley Band pulls off a very full band sound without a guitar player or the occassional second keys player.<\/p>\n

With our summer hiatus looming, I may not get to share much of Lachy Doley\u2019s music with you until mid-August when we gear up for the Porcupine Mountain Music Festival. \u00a0Lacking a rich uncle to lean on, we may have to start a Kickstarter campaign to get Lachy here for a gig. \u00a0We really haven\u2019t had a Hammond organ wizard at PMMF as far as I can remember. \u00a0I already told him that if he is ever in the neighborhood, we is welcome to drop by. \u00a0As far fetched as this sounds, it is the same reasoning we started with before we got Measured Chaos (from Detroit), Rusty Wright Band (from Flint) and Trees (from Los Angeles) here to perform: \u00a0if you wish it, it could happen. \u00a0\u00a0Barring a personal visit, we will just have to pepper the airwaves with golden music from our latest golden nugget. \u00a0Tune in to WOAS-FM 88.5 and see what I mean or catch our audio and video stream at www.woas-fm.org! \u00a0\u00a0Maybe the next big musical export from Australia will be Lachy Doley and if he is, it will be like having an entire pot of gold delivered to us without chasing the rainbow\u2019s end.<\/p>\n

Updates –<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m7hnfNh7glI \u00a0You will find an audio track of Highway Star from ‘Remachined’ featuring Lachy on keys<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E1VcpoYqA-I \u00a0Great example of the whammy clav in action on\u00a0Use Me<\/em> – yes, a blusified version of the Bill Withers tune